Best Song: Electronic - Getting Away With It
This was the Top 40 debut of Electronic who were Bernard Sumner of New Order and Johnny Marr of The Smiths. It also features vocals from Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys. In a way it does sound like what you'd expect to get if you mixed the Pet Shop Boys and New Order.
Worst Song: Neneh Cherry - Inna City Mamma
This was the final Top 40 hit from her "Raw Like Sushi" album. There's nothing raw about her music though in my opinion, it just sounds like cheesy pop music. At the same time I think there's supposed to be a serious message in this, but that just makes it worse.
Top 40 Review
One thing I hadn't thought about when I decided to do these posts is that the Christmas charts of a given year are going to be pretty similar to the first week of the following year. When I started my Top 30 from 30 years ago posts starting in 1990 the score was pretty good in the beginning.
The Top 2 were both Christmas records with the Christmas number one being a remake of "Do They Know It's Christmas" by Band Aid II. It knocked off "Let's Party" by Jive Bunny And The Mastermixers which was a medley of Christmas songs.
We also had a novelty hit in "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" by Andy Stewart which had originally charted 29 years earlier and was championed by Simon Mayo.
It wouldn't be the Christmas charts without Cliff Richard and he was in it with "Whenever God Shines His Light" in collaboration with Van Morrison. This would also be the first time we'd see Van Morrison in the Top 40.
I'm not really selling the Top 40 well so far, but it was in fact pretty decent overall. Soul II Soul were still in their prime and had "Get A Life" which wasn't as big as it's predecessors but was better in my opinion, least of all because it's not been overplayed.
There was "Lambada" by Kaoma, a record I remember liking at the time for the simple fact I had no idea what they were singing because it was in a foreign language.
We had American rap from De La Soul with the double a-side "The Magic Number/Buddy" which are both decent efforts. There was British rap from Silver Bullet with "20 Seconds To Comply" which I feel was ahead of its time.
The Christians were in the Top 40 with "Words" which isn't one of their well known ones but is a forgotten gem. It's a ballad but one that's been done really well and probably my favourite record of theirs.
We have a situation where there are more good records than bad ones and we end up with enough points to get us above 50%.
Score: 20.5
Table
The 2nd best Christmas charts score, much better than the 1989 best year score which is probably because the 90s were about to happen:
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